Walmart Raises Minimum Age for Buying Firearms

Walmart Raises Minimum Age for Buying Firearms
A customer pushes a shopping cart at a Walmart store in Chicago on Nov. 23, 2016. Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters
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Walmart Inc said on Wednesday that it was raising the minimum age at which customers could buy firearms and ammunition to 21 years.

The U.S. retailer is also removing items from its website resembling assault-style rifles, including non-lethal airsoft guns and toys, it said in a statement.